Addiction Recovery Relationships

Are you trapped in a relationship that hurts more than it heals—yet you still can’t walk away? You know they’re not good for you. You’ve cried, questioned, and convinced yourself to leave… yet something always pulls you back. This isn’t love. This is emotional addiction—and it’s not your fault. In You’re Not Addicted to Them. You’re Addicted to the Pain, Lena Hartley gently untangles the roots of trauma bonding, revealing why so many strong, self-aware women find themselves stuck in cycles of hurt, hope, and heartbreak. This isn’t just a book about letting go. It’s a...

Whether you’d like to give up alcohol or just drink less—or you’re just thinking about drinking less—this guide is for you. Each day for 30 days, New York Times best-selling author and recovery expert Holly Whitaker brings you a 5- to 10-minute reflection aimed at helping you change your relationship with alcohol, drawing on her personal experience and grounded in the latest research. 30 Days to a New Relationship with Alcohol is crafted to help you gently but powerfully change your brain and your life. All you have to do is listen.

We drink it, celebrate with it, and barely question it—but what is alcohol really doing to us? This program is read by the author. Drinking alcohol can be fun; its chemical effects on our brain are fundamentally pleasurable, and it can have social benefits. Alcohol may also help us forget the...

How Do You Deal With Stress? Through Distraction • Addiction? I Can Relate. A Wound-Up Existence Led Me Down The Path Of Addiction, Seeking Relief In Drugs. Until They Didn’t Work Anymore… After Years Of Substance Abuse, I Found Recovery. Told ‘Addiction Is Not A Drug’, Recovery Wouldn’t Be Simply ‘Staying Clean’ From Chemicals. Self-Awareness Was Needed - About My Negative Attitudes And Behaviors. Ironically, I’ve Learned Most About Myself Through Listening To Other People - Their Experiences.

How to heal relationships, mend rifts with loved ones, and balance the demands of sobriety with the need for family connection An empowering guide for recovering addicts and alcoholics from an author with lived experience and professional expertise In Rebuilding Relationships in Recovery, Janice...

Meg Wilson watched her world fall apart when her husband confessed years of sexual addiction. She has an intimate knowledge of all you may have felt-and she's lived to tell about it. With honesty and hopefulness, Meg uses her own story, along with other examples and Scripture, to help women cope and find their way out of the darkness of their husbands' sexual compulsions. She wants you to know that God's first concern is for your relationship with Him - not your circumstances.

Skills for Addiction Recovery is your comprehensive guide to rebuilding your life after addiction—step by step, with compassion, structure, and proven strategies. Whether you’re in early sobriety or looking to deepen your recovery journey, this empowering resource offers the practical tools, emotional support, and life skills you need to stay on track. Written by Lila Little, this book speaks directly to real-life challenges with clear guidance on how to achieve your goals, rebuild relationships, and create lasting change.

Is someone else's problem your problem? If, like so many others, you've lost sight of your own life in the drama of tending to a loved one’s self-destructive behavior, you may be codependent—and you may find yourself in this book. With personal reflections, exercises, and instructive stories drawn from Beattie’s own life and the lives of those she’s counseled, Codependent No More helps you break old patterns and maintain healthy boundaries, and offers a clear and achievable path to healing, hope, freedom, and happiness.

We've been told that staying with a partner who struggles with addiction—whether it be with drugs, alcohol, or addictive behaviors—means that we're enabling their destructive behavior. That wanting to help them means we're codependent, and that the best thing for both of us is to walk away from the relationship entirely. But is that true?

Recovery from Alcoholism & Addiction, Volume 1 is a compilation of the first three of five book written by Robert C. Hickle, MA, between 1976 and 1980. Drawing on 40 years of experience where he developed employee assistance programs in both the railroad and manufacturing industries. Counseling hundreds of alcoholics and addicts, Bob developed his own way of seeing the alcoholic/addict, their families, the addictions profession, and society’s view of alcohol.

💡 What if the chaos in your relationships wasn’t your fault , but the imprint of a survival pattern you were never taught to heal? If you feel torn between craving love and pushing it away… If you cycle through emotional highs and lows in your relationships… If you’ve ever said, “Why do I always sabotage the good ones?”, this book is for you. In Disorganized Attachment: You Are Not Broken, you'll discover how disorganized attachment forms in childhood and plays out in adulthood — and how to finally break the cycle. Drawing on decades of clinical experience, the author — a...

Through 12-step work, exercises, and journal-keeping, Facing Love Addiction compassionately and realistically outlines the recovery process for love addicts. Mellody’s fresh perspective and clear methods work to comfort and motivate all those looking to establish and maintain healthy, happy relationships.

Drawing on forty collective years of research and decades of clinical experience, the authors present the best practical advice science has to offer. Delivered with warmth, optimism, and humor, Beyond Addiction defines a new, empowered role for friends and family and a paradigm shift for the field.

Married to the Bottle: A Survival Guide for Spouses of Alcoholics So you fell in love with Prince Charming, only to discover he prefers kissing a bottle of vodka goodnight. Welcome to the rollercoaster of emotions, chaos, and questionable life choices known as marriage to an alcoholic. In "Married to the Bottle," you’ll find the ultimate survival guide for navigating life with a partner whose idea of fine dining involves pairing last night’s pizza with a warm beer. This book serves up the perfect cocktail of humor, resilience, and practical advice, helping you dance through the ...

Break free from love addiction and rebuild un-shakeable self-worth—at a pace that actually sticks. Are you exhausted from obsessing over an ex, dreading nights alone, or slipping back into toxic relationships that leave you feeling ashamed or empty? You’re not broken—and you’re definitely not alone. Love addiction and codependency can affect anyone, regardless of age, gender, or relationship style. Love Addiction Detox is your compassionate, evidence-based guide to permanent change. Clear, non-judgmental definitions – Understand love addiction, codependency, and attachment styles...

When the Relationship Becomes the Addiction is a book about recognizing the elusive signs and symptoms of Trauma Bonding and how it relates to Narcissistic Abuse. When the Relationship Becomes the Addiction, readers are provided with a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the intersection between relationship addiction, narcissism, and the abuse cycles of trauma Bonding. The book begins by defining narcissism and illuminating its hallmark traits, including grandiosity, manipulation, and lack of empathy. It then goes on to describe the Empath, or victim of the narcissist. Through clear ...

Mari A. Lee is the founder of Growth Counseling Services, a counseling and recovery center in Southern California specializing in working with sex and porn addicts, and partner and spouse betrayal trauma. With over 10 years of clinical experience, Mari has written Healing Betrayal for the partner or spouse who has just learned that their significant other may be dealing with sex and/or porn addiction. Having had her own personal journey as a former partner, Mari knows how heartbreaking and emotionally draining it is to be in relationship with a person who is sexually deceptive.

Why You Should Read This Book? A Lifeline for the Lost, A Guide for the Brave Addiction doesn’t start with needles, bottles, or pills. It begins with pain, silence, pressure, or curiosity. It often starts as an escape—but quickly becomes a trap. Breaking Free from the Grip of Drugs is a raw, honest, and deeply human guide that sheds light on every phase of addiction—from the first mistake to the long climb back to life. This book is not just for those caught in the cycle of substance use. It’s for families, caregivers, and anyone who wants to understand what addiction really looks ...

Popular recovery speaker Mary Pearl T talks about relationships and relates them, often humorously, to the traditions. Lots of great stories. Great fun.

Sober on a Drunk Planet: Mindset Mastery gives you a simple system for taking back control from racing thoughts, self-doubt, and destructive habits—so sobriety feels like freedom instead of a fight. If you're rebuilding after addiction or long-term dependence, you’ll learn how to build real inner strength, mental toughness, and lasting resilience. Written by best-selling author Sean Alexander—who rebuilt his life after addiction, depression, and a psychiatric-ward rock bottom—this book blends proven mindset tools with the light-hearted humour the series is known for.